COVID-19 (Wuhan Novel Coronavirus) Pandemic Master Thread

[Jerseysteve]

A good read from Bill Gates - including information on plasma

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Pandemic-Innovation

A Plasma drug being tested

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lilly-to-start-testing-experimental-drug-in-coronavirus-patients-soon-11587660027

[lifetimedeals]

This was mentioned last month: Amex offering to defer payments with no interest for two months. Both personal and business. Anyone that did this can please advise if they froze account after blocking new purchases? I'm just looking to avoid interest can make a min. payment.

[moko]

I just dropped off to at Boston Children's Hospital for someone. While most were wearing masks, a good number of people in the lobby were not wearing masks. Pretty surprised.

[israshot]

President Trump responded to a presentation by Bill Bryan from the Department of Homeland security on how to fight COVID-19 by suggesting that injecting the body with disinfectant could serve as treatment.

[srap]

This was mentioned last month: Amex offering to defer payments with no interest for two months. Both personal and business. Anyone that did this can please advise if they froze account after blocking new purchases? I'm just looking to avoid interest can make a min. payment.

Even though they assured me they would not, they indeed blocked my accounts for not paying the minimum due.  Interest and late payments were deferred, but not minimum due.  IOW, this is a problem for charge cards since the entire amount is due!

Your question and my answer should probably be in a different thread.

[israshot]

This was mentioned last month: Amex offering to defer payments with no interest for two months. Both personal and business. Anyone that did this can please advise if they froze account after blocking new purchases? I'm just looking to avoid interest can make a min. payment.

Even though they assured me they would not, they indeed blocked my accounts for not paying the minimum due.  Interest and late payments were deferred, but not minimum due.  IOW, this is a problem for charge cards since the entire amount is due!

Your question and my answer should probably be in a different thread.

Here:

[israshot]

President Trump responded to a presentation by Bill Bryan from the Department of Homeland security on how to fight COVID-19 by suggesting that injecting the body with disinfectant could serve as treatment.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1253697753479331840

[Iz]

[tweet]1253697753479331840[/tweet]

Save your bleach for your server in your bathroom.

[ari3]

Can someone please explain to me the antibody plasma testing that has been going on all over the Jewish world. According to people in the know only one person has been given antibody therapy in Mount Sinai with no real results. The whole fanfare of sending it off by PJ to the Mayo clinic for testing. There are no known results so far. There are far more positive results from treating patients with HCY etc or blood thinners to reduce clots which seem to be a byproduct of the disease.

I have a bad feeling about this. My gut tells me this is just someone or a group of people building a database such as the bone marrow or kidney testing drives that go on regularly and someone will be profiting off this. Dont get me wrong, people are tzadikim for contributing their time and for getting tested for many of these ventures.

https://mishpacha.com/gift-of-life/

[CountValentine]

President Trump responded to a presentation by Bill Bryan from the Department of Homeland security on how to fight COVID-19 by suggesting that injecting the body with disinfectant could serve as treatment.

Kool-Aid FOX is trying to spin and defend this idea.

[CountValentine]

Save your bleach for your server in your bathroom.

At least that won't get anyone killed.

[Ergel]

Kool-Aid FOX is trying to spin and defend this idea.

A new low.

[Yehuda57]

At least that won't get anyone killed.

Oh really now #ClintonBodyCount

[ilherman]

Kool-Aid FOX is trying to spin and defend this idea.

Can you point me as to where he said that people should do XYZ?

Let's say that he was not sarcastic, where do you see him instructing? I am seeing him posing a question and saying that he is not a Dr and saying they should look into it.

He even goes on to say later that the fake news will put out headlines "TRUMP SAID TO DO XYZ" and he said very clearly that he is not a Dr and not suggesting anything.

[ilherman]

[AsherO]

We never trusted WebMD, and it’s not the first time this guy Slidell is on these videos with his unconventional wisdom. I didn’t watch it once I saw who’s what, I’m too skeptical to even waste my time on it.

[CountValentine]

Can you point me as to where he said that people should do XYZ?

Let's say that he was not sarcastic, where do you see him instructing? I am seeing him posing a question and saying that he is not a Dr and saying they should look into it.

He even goes on to say later that the fake news will put out headlines "TRUMP SAID TO DO XYZ" and he said very clearly that he is not a Dr and not suggesting anything.

Come on, man! 
He is the president of US. Words matter. You have plenty of things to defend him on but this isn't one of them.
He asked a question to his team to look into injecting disinfectant. That was completely insane.
If you would like to continue this nonsense:  https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=113857.0

[AsherO]

If you would like to continue this nonsense:  https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=113857.0

Pick your poison means do you choose to be injected with disinfectant?

[Ergel]

Can you point me as to where he said that people should do XYZ?

Let's say that he was not sarcastic, where do you see him instructing? I am seeing him posing a question and saying that he is not a Dr and saying they should look into it.

He even goes on to say later that the fake news will put out headlines "TRUMP SAID TO DO XYZ" and he said very clearly that he is not a Dr and not suggesting anything.

[hvaces42]

We never trusted WebMD, and it’s not the first time this guy Slidell is on these videos with his unconventional wisdom. I didn’t watch it once I saw who’s what, I’m too skeptical to even waste my time on it.

You may not like WebMD or Sidell, but there is loads of truth to the fact that they were mistreating the disease based on faulty data.

There is also a lot of talk that patients were not getting PTN, which is basic nutrition because the hospital was just not equipped to give 200 patients a day individualized dietary care. The dieticians, PTs, OTs that are required for keeping vent patients alive were not doing anything. Stories of patients starving to death are not far fetched.

There was a colossal mess up in preparation for this. Besides the facts that the disease was being improperly treated.

They created protocols that required ventilation when there was no need or they could have waited to ventilate. They shied away from C-pap and bi-pap when they should have utilized them more. I know of one case where the patient was on C-pap at home for 3 weeks and only went to hospital when there was no choice due to clotting issues. It will all come out eventually.